Re: Microsoft and Amazon get Cortana and Alexa talking

I can do the cooking with my hands full, set a timer verbally, have it play music, tell me the news, footie scores, weather, whether the train is running on time.... all while not stopping chopping veg/mixing the eton mess whatever. It's epic. Mock away but it's a great little gizmo.

Re: Microsoft and Amazon get Cortana and Alexa talking

Until MS or Amazon can make the commitment that neither will monetise my useage data then I just can't see either of these devices in my home, which is a shame as I think the tech is genuinely useful. I'm stuck with MS slurping my data already from my Windows 10 devices although it's turned off wherever possible and Cortana is disabled. They could both make that commitment with Cortana funded by MS licenses and Alexa effectively being an Amazon shop front, but I've yet to see anything concrete about how they will use this data going forward. Until they can demonstrate that they can truly respect the privacy of their customers then it just ain't happening.

Google assistants are just a total non-starter, today and tomorrow, as their whole business model is purely to extract that data and sell it. I don't use Google services at all, so they're not providing me with anything in return and so they actually need to pay me for my data and until such time they can "do one".